If you do not have truth, how do you survive as a democratic society?
If we are asking other countries to improve their institutions, to bring more transparency, how do we make that argument...
You go after the press. You try to delegitimize the press and say it is all fake news.
I think our institutions do need reforms and they do need strengthening and they do need to be adapted for the situation...
Your opposition to the border tax, if that is taken out, the math does not work real well for the tax plan.
These are entitlements. These are things that people have paid in their entire life.
We simply cannot continue to rack up the debt at the rate we are.
We should not shy away from having a real debate when we raise the debt limit.
It is wholly irresponsible to turn this debate into one that threatens the full faith and credit of the United States.
Doing the right thing is hard and often not politically expedient.
The triple-A credit of the United States is the bedrock of the global financial system.